FreeBSD Release Eng. Team’s Murray Stokely announced the availability of FreeBSD 4.8 RC2 for i386 and he says that the alpha build is in progress.
FreeBSD 4.8 RC2 / i386 Now Available
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4.8 is coming along nicely, which is important since 5.0 is not yet as stable as 4.x – great work everyone involved!
more power to FreeBSD!
Is 5.0 stable enough to be a firewall/NAT-box in my living room, or should 4.7/4.8 be used instead?
I like to use the latest shit whenever possible if it’s up to par
“Is 5.0 stable enough to be a firewall/NAT-box in my living room, or should 4.7/4.8 be used instead?”
It is for me, but for every happy 5.0 user, there are 2 who scream about it’s instability. Seems to be wildly hardware-dependant.
I am thinking to try one ove them for my home server. Where can I get info about their differences ?
I was wondering, I wanna load FreeBSD on one of those dirt cheap wal-mart.com boxes. Anyone done this? Any tips?
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2138700&cat=8…
I wouldn’t recommend 5.0 for any sort of production use yet… I’ve had a number of stability issues on various systems.
I’m buying this 4.8 official CDs. It will be the most matured FreeBSD around. I hope it has xfree 4.3 and kde 3.1. And many other new important packages for me (Konqueror 3.1, Mozilla 1.3 already on CDs, PHP, GCC, Python).
In the middle of this year 5.1 might be a good choice for some home computing.
Where can I get info about their differences ?
http://www.google.com
If you have a Pentium (III, 4) class machine (i386) maybe (to start on BSD) FreeBSD would be a better choice.
5.0 might not be good on recent non-standard chipsets
(SiS, Ali… – I have a SiS / Duron 1.2 and #”$%@…..
I am thinking to try one ove them for my home server. Where can I get info about their differences ?
Why choose? Use NetBSD instead. =)
gentoo! o/
doh! freebsd post, carry on.
I wouldn’t recommend 5.0 for any sort of production use yet… I’ve had a number of stability issues on various systems.
As chicobaud and Jago had noted, 5.0’s stability is much more hardware- than software-dependant at this time, looks like that it’s more stable on Intel chipsets than SIS or VIA ones.
You might find this helpful if you’re having trouble choosing a BSD: http://bsd.jocose.org/whichbsd.html
I guess OpenBSD’s new packetfilter is coming along very well.
For Joe User, they’re all going to require serious work to get setup correctly. In other words, the BSDs are not point and click OSes… well, some count OS X as a BSD, but I don’t.
As chicobaud and Jago had noted, 5.0’s stability is much more hardware- than software-dependant at this time, looks like that it’s more stable on Intel chipsets than SIS or VIA ones.
Uh, no. There are still terrible software bugs in FreeBSD 5.0, such as in background fsck, which seems to cause system hardlocks on any platform I’ve used FreeBSD 5.0 on (which includes systems with Intel chipsets) about half the time.
I was just wondering what, if any, are the significant differences between version 4.7 and 5.0 either RC2 or DP2?
I am just curious because I just want to learn more about BSD because I am in a networking course and would eventually like to setup a server. I have a general background in Redhat Linux.
Any help appreciated.
Kirby